Oswald Chambers Quotes
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Never consider whether you are of use; but ever consider that you are not your own but His.
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You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.
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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?
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The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.
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Don't read to remember; read to realize.
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The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.
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The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.
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Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
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Joy is the great note all through the Bible. We have the notion of joy that arises from good spirits or good health, but the miracle of joy of God has nothing to do with a man's life or his circumstances or the condition he is in. Jesus Christ does not come to a man and say, 'Cheer up.' He plants within a man the miracle of the joy of God's own nature.
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Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.
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Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.
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The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus.
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If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.
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The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time.
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God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.
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If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.